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In reply to the discussion: Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all]Skelly
(238 posts)40. Being President of the PTA
can be a reflection of control freak parents.
I do not think home school parents have a corner on the market.
What is really funny is the OPPOSITE of that supposition is often times used to discredit home schooling (ie- the belief that home school parents are unstructured and let their kids do anything/nothing at all).
Public/Private schools, Home School, UNSchool, can all be done successfully. They can all fail. In my opinion, it all comes down to teacher/parent involvement.
A parent does not have to home school their child to hide any agenda (not that it isn't used this way). There are, unfortunately, many kids in public and private schools that suffer abuse/neglect that fall through the cracks.
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Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all]
Amerigo Vespucci
Mar 2012
OP
My problem is my client is being punished for homeschooling (to the best of her ability).
no_hypocrisy
Mar 2012
#22
This isn't so much a home schooling issue as it is a religious fanaticism issue.
teewrex
Mar 2012
#8
I worry more about the social 'isolation' that so many of the religiously
sinkingfeeling
Mar 2012
#12